CHAPTER 2A Token
Redfield was looking anxious. “The children are behaving pretty well,” he said. “Pretty well. But poor dear Aunt Josie—they hardly know how to take her. You’ll help, Gamadge? You’ll do your best? You won’t mind humoring her? She’ll ask you to call her Vega, you know; that’s her astrological name.” He smiled. “You won’t mind a flight to the stars? Into the Inane? I refer, of course, to the immensities of space.” His eyes glinted. “Just to keep her happy, you know. She’s such a decent old thing.”
Gamadge said gravely that she had done well to choose as a patron a star of the first magnitude.
“Well, she sticks to the name; but I’m afraid that apart from sticking to the name she’s rather deserted astrology. I’m afraid it’s a sun cult now.”
“A what?”
“A sun cult.”
“I don’
